"Idleness and fear keeps us in the..." - Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.”

“We may say of agreeableness, as distinct from beauty, that it is a symmetry whose rules are unknown.”

“The generality of men have, like plants, latent properties, which chance brings to light.”

“We try to use the talents we do have to express our deep feelings, to show our appreciation of all the contributions that came before us, and to add something to that flow. That's what's driven me.”

“Never has there been a map, however carefully executed to detail and scale, which has carried its owner over even one inch of ground. Never has there been a parchment of law, however fair, which prevented one crime. Never has there been a scroll, even such as the one I hold, which so much as a penny or produced a single word of acclamation. Action, alone, is the tinder which ignites the map, the parchment, this scroll, my plans, my goals, into a living force. Action is the food and drink which will nourish my success. I will act now.”

“The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.”

“I want to sleep for eternity with a broad smile on my face. I want those who remain behind to say this man has done his duty.”

“The safest rule of conduct is to claim kinship when we want to do service and not to insist on kinship when we want to assert a right.”

“I was summoned by my Country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love.”